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WRABPBR Fon ToBAcco.' No. 526,517. e Patented Sept. 25, 1894.

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JOI-IN CONLEY', OF NEW YORK,`N. Y.`

WRAPPER FOR TOBACCO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,517, dated September 25, 1894.

i Application filed March 11J 1393` Serial No. 465,505. (Specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.- j

Be it known that I, JOHN CONLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, county and State of New York, have invented newand useful Improvements in Wrappers for Tobacco, of which the follow` ing is a specification. j

This lnvention relates to an improvement 1n wrappers for tobacco.

A great deal of trouble and difficulty has` heretofore been experienced by tobacco packfor picking apart sheets of foil which were matted at the edges or otherwise stuck together, and which were frequently torn and rendered useless, in the operation of picking j apart. This sticking together'ofsheets of foil may result from many `causes,lamong which may be mentioned that during the process of manufacture it is necessary to run streams of wateren the rolls to regulate their expansion. Occasionally, without showing itself to the operator, some of this Water will unavoidably follow the edges of the foil, and whenever this water is deposited onthe foil, there the sheets will stick to each other when packed in boxes for shipment. Again, while foil is being packed in boxes for shipment, at times a certain quantity of air above a moderate temperature is imprisoned in the box. As soon as the box encounters the outside colder atmosphere, Vwhich transportion or storage necessarily brings it in contact with the moisture in this imprisoned heated air, condenses on the foil, causing the sheets to stick together to such an extent that sometimes a number of boxes, each containing from two to three thousand wrappers shipped in good order, will reach the buyer in solid chunks of metal, good for nothing, but re-` melting. From this it will be seen that large quantities of Wrappers may be rendered usethus involving an extra labor cost and considerable waste of material through foil tearing in the picking apart operation.

In my improved wrapper all the difficulty above referred to will be entirely obviated, as the paper will serve to keep the sheets of foil from touching each other. Again, foil being soft, the edges are often so badly jammed during transportion as to leave a considerable part of a shipment matted together at the edges, necessitating an extra labor cost and considerable waste of material in picking it apart. My improved Wrapper will overcome this difficulty. The paper used being so much stiffer than the foil, will act as a foil protector, as it will by reason of its greater stiffness, take the jamming of vedges without suffering injury. Again, in

the packing operation as heretofore per formed, it was necessary to pick up a sheet of foil, thenl a sheet of paper, then adjust both of these before any of the regular packing operation could be started.

With my improved wrapper, all that isnecessary is to pick up one Wrapper, which is already adjusted, ready to receive contents.

This, added to the rapidity of movement,

which my wrapper will admit of, on account of the wrappers sliding apart so easily, will greatly facilitate packing and cheapen its cost considerably.

My invention consists in a combined paper and foil wrapper, the paper and foil sheets bee ing secured together in the manner hereinafter described.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a plan view of one of the wrappers with a bunch of tobacco thereon to be wrapped; and Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

Heretofore tobacco has been wrapped with both paper and foil in separate sheets, and wrappers have been made of foil and paper sheets secured together. Wrappers made by pasting together the entire meeting surfaces of sheets of foil and paper, while better than the foil sheets alone, are unsatisfactory, for the reason that such treatment; first deprives the wrapper of much of its flexibility, which is one of its most valuable attributes; second, it does not leave the foil free to stretch independently of the paper as is desired; third,

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